Frieze

Frieze is a contemporary art magazine, published eight times a year. It was founded in London in 1991 and is renowned for publishing essays, profiles, interviews and reviews by today’s leading writers, artists and curators. Across all platforms and live events frieze elevates the provocative, brilliant and leading voices who shape and challenge today’s art world.

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Rose B. Simpson • To Do: What's on the agenda for the art world's most booked and busy?

After Coco • One Take: A look at Sylvie Fleury's devotion to luxury ahead of her new commission for Performa and an exhibition at Sprüth Magers, New York by Paige K. Bradley

Dramatis Personae • Performance: Aria Dean on the challenges of crafting characters in her 2025 Performa commission

Imagining the Otherwise • Performance: Saidiya Hartman on the minor musics and diasporic traditions behind her latest ‘performed discourse’

Consider the Algorithm • Performance: New York's newest performance space foregrounds togetherness by Jeanette Bisschops

Bring Down the House • Performance: What happens when unorthodox art forms enter traditional institutions? by Miriam Stoney

Warped Speed • Performance: The multidisciplinary practice of Ayoung Kim projects possible worlds and queers conceptions of time by Cassie Packard

Features

‘To respect the material is to work in a state of consent, you have to be able to learn to communicate with it.’ • Interview: Following the opening of her exhibition at the de Young in San Francisco, writer and sculptor Rose B. Simpson talks to Natalie Diaz about Indigenous education and collaborating with materials

ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY • Essay: Novelist Tash Aw reflects on the future of Singapore through the works of artists Heman Chong and Ming Wong

THE 25 BEST WORKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • Dossier: This year, frieze asked 200 artists, curators, critics and museum directors to name the most outstanding works of art from the past quarter century. From their nominations, we compiled a list of 25 works that have shaped contemporary art since the year 2000

The Writing Fellow • Reflections on a journey through the galleries and behind the scenes at Madrid's Prado Museum

Tau Lewis • Profile: Ahead of her Performa debut in New York this autumn, the artist traces her new performance to the Sumerian poem ‘The Descent of Inanna’ and the enduring influence it holds over her practice by Camille Bacon

Asia Pacific

Europe

Americas

Reviews

Connecting Thin Black Lines, 1985-2025 • Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK

Derek Jarman • Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK

Pedigree • OHSH Projects, London, UK

Suzanne Song • White Cube Mason's Yard, London, UK

Folkestone Triennial • Various locations, Folkestone, UK

Non-Residency • Jaipur Centre for Art, India

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me • Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea

Pratchaya Phinthong • Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Thailand

Mohammad Alfaraj • Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Lindokuhle Sobekwa • Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

36th São Paulo Biennial • Various locations, São Paulo, Brazil

Civil Commitment • Bel Ami, Los Angeles, USA

Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms • Toledo Museum of Art, USA

Homage: Queer lineages on video • Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA

Zoe Leonard • Maxwell Graham, New York, USA

Ludovica Carbotta • Espai 13, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain

Madison Bycroft • Triangle-Astérides, Marseille,...